If I created a shortlist of the most effective decision I made in streamlining and business and increasing my bottom line, switching to shipping almost everything in poly mailers would be in the top 3 (along with using a thermal label printer and using cross-posting software). If you are on the brink of utilizing poly …
If you’ll be running a shop that sells physical products, getting them into the customer’s hands is the entire cornerstone of your business. Sourcing products, marketing, and customer support are all important but making a sale and delivering the goods is where the rubber hits the road. While we mainly focus on our digital products, …
Most people who start a small business do so on a shoestring budget. For the longest time after I started my eBay business, I didn’t care what the best thermal printer was or the best shipping scale. I just wanted the cheapest possible item that would do its job without breaking or causing issues. Which …
I’ll admit it, I don’t love actually shipping things after I sell them. I love almost every other part of my business but actually boxing things up to ship out is such a drag. Because of this, I had hesitated to spend much time looking at (or improving) my shipping set-up and my old LP2844 …
It doesn’t matter whether you sell on eBay, Shopify, Poshmark, or Mercari, in eCommerce, exposure means sales. The more eyeballs you can get on your product listings, the more you’ll sell. At least, you will if your items don’t suck. The problem is, how do you get more potential customers to see your items without …
When my wife and I first started selling on eBay, I would work at my “real” job from 3-11 p.m, get home around midnight, pack the things that sold during the day, and head to the post office to ship them! We would stand at the shipping kiosk for more than an hour some nights …
When I first started selling clothes online I figured that getting a mannequin was the holy grail, one of the signs that I was actually a professional seller and not just some dude listing his homemade clothes for sale. So, naturally, I went out and bought 4 different mannequins to prove to myself how professional …
When it comes to shipping from home, very few things are actually necessary to make the process run smoothly. You don’t need personalized boxes, cute work area decorations, a Rollo label printer, etc. Those things are cute and are helpful, but if you’re looking to get into selling for maximum profit, none of those will …
My first trip to the Goodwill Outlets to source books for Amazon was a disaster. Apart from finding a shoe full of poop (that’s a story for another time) I was absolutely blown away by how crazy people can be. I had been selling full-time on eBay for a couple of years but was just …
When I first started selling on eBay and shipping orders my packages looked horrendous. I mainly relied on free shipping supplies to keep costs down so I shipped items in diaper boxes, recycled Amazon boxes, and just about anything else I could find. Discovering that I could take a box and make it whatever size …